DESPOTIC was primarily written by Mark Krumholz, but it contains or relies on
the contributions of a number of others.

Desika Narayanan has done more than anyone else to field test the
code and discover bugs.

DESPOTIC grew out of a code initially written in collaboration with
Todd Thompson

Adam Ginsburg provided useful advice and aided in early testing.

Floris van der Tak has assisted in field testing the code, and
helped improve the quality of the documentation.

DESPOTIC would not be possible without the Leiden Atomic and
Molecular Database,
which is maintained by Floris van der Tak, Ewine van Dishoeck, and
John Black, and which was initially established by Feredic Schöier

Mark Krumholz’s work writing DESPOTIC was funded in part by the US
National Science Foundation (grant AST-0955300) and NASA (grant
NNX09AK31G). Continued development is supported by the Australian
Research Council (grant DP160100695).